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Urban theatre in the Low Countries, 1400-1625 / edited by Elsa Strietman and Peter Happé.

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Urban theatre in the Low Countries, 1400-1625 / edited by Elsa Strietman and Peter Happé.
Publication
Turnhout : Brepols ; Abingdon : Marston [distributor], 2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Strietman, Elsa.
  • Happé, Peter.
Description
xii, 317 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
Summary
This collection of essays by international scholars focuses on the vernacular urban culture of the Chambers of Rhetoric in the Low Countries of the 15th and 16th centuries. The volume sets the Rhetoricians' drama in the cultural life of the provinces during a period dominated by ruling foreign dynasties.
Series Statement
Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe ; 12
Uniform Title
Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe 12.
Subject
  • To 1700
  • Dutch drama > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
  • Dutch drama > To 1500 > History and criticism
  • Rhetoricians > Benelux countries > History
  • Chambers of rhetoric > Benelux countries > History
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Borderline texts : the case of the Maastricht (Ripuarian) passion play / Carla Dauven-Van Knippenberg -- Pausa and Selete in the Bliscapen / W. M. H. Hummelen -- Rhetoricians and religious compromise during the early reformation, c. 1520-1555 / Gary K. Waite -- 'Heresy' in the plays of the Dutch rhetoricians / Wim Husken -- Dutch allegorical theatre : tradition and conceptual approach / Bart Ramakers -- Pyramus and Thisbe : rhetoricians and Shakespeare / Peter Happe -- God, gods, humans, and Sinnekens in classical rhetoricians plays / Elsa Strietman -- Guild pageants and urban stability in Lille / Alan E. Knight -- Rhetoricians and the drama : the Francophone tradition / Lynette R. Muir -- Worthy women of the Old Testament : the Ambachtsvrouwen of the Leuven Ommegang / Meg Twycross -- Accommodation and possessions of chambers of rhetoric in the province of Holland / Th. C. J. Van Der Heijden and F. C. Van Boheemen -- Producing late medieval Dutch plays today / Femke Kramer.
ISBN
  • 9782503517001 (hbk.)
  • 2503517005 (hbk.)
OCLC
  • 77258365
  • SCSB-11053491
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library